After much contemplation I have finally chosen my new computer. I went with the Geforce 6800 GT mainly becasue of Pixel Shader 3.0 support and as I prefer the stability of NVidia’s drivers.

I’ve bought Half-Life 2 and Rome:Total War recently. I’ll put up a review of HL2 when I finish it, I’m about half the way through and loving it. It’s definately in my top 5 games of all time. The way the graphics, physics, sound come together to create one of the best atmosphere’s in a game to date is superb. Rome: Total War is another game which has lived up to it’s hype. The graphics engine is simply amazing, especially it’s level of detail which let it run smoothly on my old Geforce 3 and my new one.

Work is going well, I’ll be working on MyVirtualHome (www.myvirtualhome.com.au) until mid 2005. I’m learning a lot every day and enjoying every bit of it. It’s been one year since I started in the games industry and I’m loving every minute.

That’s about all, I’m moving house over the next few weeks, after which I’m going to get into a routine and start coding my space game, it’s all coming together in my head and I’ve written a simple design doc.